Tag: Roger Sloman

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: Peterloo (2018)

I wanted to like Mike Leigh’s Peterloo, I really did… “You must be famished coming all the…

Posted in Books Kenneth Branagh Photos Theatre

Book review: The Half – Simon Annand

The Half – Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage by Simon Annand Just a quickie for…

Posted in TV

TV Review: Small Island

“This island is too small if you have big dreams” Andrea Levy’s 2004 novel Small Island was…

Posted in Arthur Wing Pinero National Theatre Stephen Beresford Theatre

Review: The Magistrate, National Theatre

“It’s the little lies that get you into trouble” Aged 36, the widowed Agatha Posket feared for…

Posted in Royal Court Theatre

Review: Goodbye to All That, Royal Court

“The older you get the more you realise: you don’t grow up. Not really. You just get…

Posted in Arthur Miller Jermyn Street Theatre Theatre

Review: Danger: Memory!, Jermyn Street Theatre

“What you can’t chase, you’d better face or it’ll start chasing you” Danger: Memory! is a double…

Posted in Bertolt Brecht National Theatre Theatre

Review: Mother Courage and her Children, National Theatre

Mother Courage and her Children sees Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner reunited once again at the National…

Posted in National Theatre Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review

Review: Henry IV Part II, National Theatre

Continuing from Part I, Henry IV Part II lends itself to a lighter interpretation due to the…

Posted in National Theatre Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review

Review: Henry IV Part I, National Theatre

Forming a six hour epic, Nicholas Hytner’s productions of Henry IV Part I and Part II take…